Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932351AbWBPTPz (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:15:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932352AbWBPTPz (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:15:55 -0500 Received: from gateway-1237.mvista.com ([63.81.120.158]:48111 "EHLO dhcp153.mvista.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932351AbWBPTPy (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Feb 2006 14:15:54 -0500 Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:15:49 -0800 (PST) From: Daniel Walker To: Ulrich Drepper cc: mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] FUTEX: one more return . In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <200602161742.k1GHgs2m029392@dhcp153.mvista.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 744 Lines: 23 Ok .. On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > On 2/16/06, Daniel Walker wrote: >> Continue the theme of returns . > > No, that's wrong. I got Ingo to remove this code and he documented it: > > ===== > - race fix: do not bail out in the list walk when the list_op_pending > pointer cannot be followed by the kernel - another userspace thread > may have already destroyed the mutex (and unmapped it), before this > thread had a chance to clear the field. > ===== > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/